Re: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-13 Thread Laurent CHARLES
Larry Jones wrote: Laurent CHARLES writes: In our case, we only had such 2-digit dates for year 02, and we did not have any date prior to 2002. No recent version of CVS could have done that, only an ancient version that uses external RCS commands rather than the integrated RCS library along with

Re: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-11 Thread Laurent CHARLES
Larry Jones wrote: (...) I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean that your RCS file contains 2-digit dates for 2000 and later? Yes. Apparently set by some old version of cvs. Let me make sure we're talking about the same thing: Are you saying that your RCS files contain dates

Re: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-11 Thread Larry Jones
Laurent CHARLES writes: In our case, we only had such 2-digit dates for year 02, and we did not have any date prior to 2002. No recent version of CVS could have done that, only an ancient version that uses external RCS commands rather than the integrated RCS library along with an antique

Re: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-07 Thread Laurent CHARLES
Hello, Thank you all for your replies. Laurent wrote: I have some dirty admin hacks to do on CVS repository files (*,v). I wonder if there is any risk or incidence to change the file timestamps. We want to rewrite the revision time information within the *,v files, but not to change the date,

RE: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-07 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Laurent CHARLES wrote: I agree, but we checked that not 2 digit dates are prior 2000. So it is ok _in our case_. I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean that your RCS file contains 2-digit dates for 2000 and later? -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology

Re: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-07 Thread Laurent CHARLES
Jim.Hyslop wrote: I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean that your RCS file contains 2-digit dates for 2000 and later? Yes. Apparently set by some old version of cvs. -- -- Laurent ___ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org

Re: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-07 Thread Larry Jones
Laurent CHARLES writes: Jim.Hyslop wrote: I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean that your RCS file contains 2-digit dates for 2000 and later? Yes. Apparently set by some old version of cvs. Let me make sure we're talking about the same thing: Are you saying that your

RE: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-06 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Laurent CHARLES wrote: I have some dirty admin hacks to do on CVS repository files (*,v). I wonder if there is any risk or incidence to change the file timestamps. NB: I accept the risk to badly hack the files themselves. So, let me get this straight - you want to change the timestamp of

Re: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-06 Thread Laurent CHARLES
Laurent CHARLES wrote: I have some dirty admin hacks to do on CVS repository files (*,v). I wonder if there is any risk or incidence to change the file timestamps. NB: I accept the risk to badly hack the files themselves. Jim.Hyslop wrote: So, let me get this straight - you want to change the

RE: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-06 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Laurent CHARLES wrote: We want to rewrite the revision time information within the *,v files, but not to change the date, only to change the way the date is displayed. This is because the old date format with 2 digits for the year crashes viewCVS, while it is ok if the year is written

Re: Modif timestamps of files in CVS repository

2005-01-06 Thread Larry Jones
Laurent CHARLES writes: We want to rewrite the revision time information within the *,v files, but not to change the date, only to change the way the date is displayed. This is because the old date format with 2 digits for the year crashes viewCVS, while it is ok if the year is written